Soil & Groundwater

In recent decades, researchers in the environmental field deepened the focus on Sustainability,
and the different means to achieve and maintain all the required conditions for human activity,
with minimal harm to the environment.
Evaluating the difficulties and dangers ecological problems might present to human populations,
authorities began to emphasize the need to protect the most basic resources of all: Water & Soil.

Today, aquifers are the most important source for drinking water, especially in arid and semi-arid areas.
In order to prevent groundwater contamination, it is necessary to ensure that the soil – from ground surface
to the bottom of the aquifer itself – does not contain any hazardous compounds in potentially-harmful concentrations.

In order to evaluate any potential threat to soil & groundwater safety, and to ensure the remediation or rehabilitation
of sites found to be contaminated, national authorities throughout the world implemented region-specific regulations
and ordinances.

Since the last decade, national authorities in Israel are promoting legislation parallel to the American regulations,
such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, and the Superfund Cleanup
Acceleration Act of 1998. Consequently, the EPA’s 3-Phase ‘Environmental Site Assessment’ (ESA) doctrine was put into effect,
demanding land owners to evaluate the feasibility for pollution in their asset, survey the property if a contamination-potential was found,
and remediate or rehabilitate the site if needed.